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Hervé de Toulgoët


Hervé de Toulgoët (28 March 1911 – 14 September 2009) was a French entomologist. He specialised in Lepidoptera in the family Arctiidae. He also studied the beetle genus Carabus and moths of the family Zygaenidae. He was written about by Paul Thiaucourt and Jocelyne Navatte.

According to Navatte's note, de Toulgoët published 179 works. On the genus Carabus, he published a catalogue of the types of the Paris National Museum of Natural History collection. On the Zygaenidae he published a note on some Moroccan species. His other works are mainly on Arctiidae.

Hervé de Toulgoët described 432 new species, and the following 31 genera:

Many taxa have also been named in honour of de Toulgoët:


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